Looking Forward
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Looking Forward 2004-2005 ANNUAL REPORT Looking Forward s t Table of Contents n e t n o 3 . Letter from the Executive Director C f 4 . Executive Summary o e 6 . Achieving Indiana’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation 2005 Objectives l b Tobacco Use Burden on Indiana a 12 . T 38 . Tobacco Control Policy 50 . Indiana’s Tobacco Settlement Appropriations 53 . ITPC Organizational Chart and Staff 54 . Executive Board Structure / Members 56 . Advisory Board Structure / Members 57 . Vision and Mission Statement 58 . The Hoosier Model 60 . ITPC Annual Accomplishments 66 . Evaluation and Surveillance 78 . Community Programs 92 . Statewide Public Education Campaign 100 . Enforcement of Youth Access Laws 104 . Administration and Management 106 . Annual Budget 107 . Annual Financial Report 110 . ITPC Coalitions by County 172 . Policy Charts 2 2004-2005 ANNUAL REPORT Greetings from the Executive Director - Karla S. Sneegas, M.P.H. With so much work going on at ITPC during our fourth year, we publish a lot of numbers, statistics, rankings, and studies. We are making great strides in Indiana. But, behind every one of those statistics is a person, a family, a daughter, mother, son, father, aunt, uncle, or grandparent who has either lost their life or is missed by a family member taken away too soon. For every Johnny Carson or Peter Jennings we see on national TV, there are still 27 Hoosiers dying each day from the devastation tobacco brings. Recently I received a letter that touched my heart and gave me the resolve to keep fighting to save more Hoosiers from tobacco-caused death and disease. The letter came from Mr. Williams. He quit smoking at age 42, but before he quit, his daughter started smoking. He begged her to quit. She said she would when he did. He quit at age 42. His daughter did not keep her part of the bargain. And she never will. She died at age 41 from diseases caused by tobacco use. She left behind two daughters, age 12 and 13, who are now being raised by their grandparents. I think about Mr. Williams and his daughter, and the young girls who have had their mother taken away. There are 1,800 Hoosier children living without their moms because of tobacco, and another 4,700 Hoosier children who have lost their dads. As you will find in this year’s annual report, we have great news to report in the fight to save Hoosiers from the devastation caused by tobacco. One of our proudest moments came last spring when youth working with VOICE, Indiana’s youth movement against tobacco, reported that smoking among high school students decreased 32% between 2000-2004, surpassing our 2005 objective. The youth who started VOICE in 2002 are now in college or out in the workplace. Many are as involved in VOICE as when it began. They are training a new generation for Indiana’s VOICE movement, working to improve their college campus tobacco policies, and demanding that their workplaces and community public venues be 100% smoke free. As one VOICE college trainer put it... ”Adults have been preaching to us to do the right thing when it comes to smoking, now that we’re 18 we expect adults to do the right thing in protecting us from other people’s smoke.” Hoosier adults are starting to listen to this new generation of young people. Consider this: • 25 hospital and health care facilities took their grounds smoke free in Indiana this year, twice the number of tobacco free hospital policy changes in 2004. • Adults have declared their homes smoke free- a move that improves family member’s ability to quit smoking and stay quit, while also protecting the entire family from the toxins in secondhand smoke. • By the Spring of 2006, over 20 percent of Hoosiers will be protected by local smoke free air ordinances, up from 3 percent in 2000. • 45% of Hoosier youth are protected by 100% tobacco free school campus policies. • Eighty-seven percent of the top employers in Indiana’s counties report a smoke free building policy, up from 68% in 2003. Despite these significant victories, our job is far from over. Indiana continues to struggle with the human and financial toll that comes from our cultural and physical addiction to tobacco. Medical costs attributable directly to smoking still total $1.9 billion in Indiana annually. Smoking pre- vention and cessation is truly a bargain when you consider the financial toll our State and employers carry. Mr. Williams shared his story hoping it will help save others. On behalf of Mr. Williams and the thousands of Hoosier families affected by tobacco use, we have much more work to do. Thank you for taking the time to read this year’s annual report and for the help of each and every Hoosier who has contributed to the success so far. With your help, we will keep Indiana looking forward to a more tobacco-free future. 3 Looking Forward y continues to analyze data and produce fact sheets to r Executive Summary a share tobacco use behavior, attitude and belief trends Tobacco use costs Hoosiers 9,700 lives and $1.9 billion m in Indiana. each year. With the 7th highest adult smoking rate in the m • The Indiana Air Monitoring Study found that full-time u United States, Hoosiers must continue to take action in S bar and restaurant employees are exposed on the job e reducing the tobacco burden and reversing its devastating v to more than seven times the annual limit of fine i t effects through the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and particulate air pollution recommended by the EPA. u Cessation (ITPC) programs. The Indiana Tobacco Use c • ITPC continues to work with the State Board of Accounts e Prevention and Cessation Trust Fund and Executive Board x to have field auditors around the state visit the ITPC E exists to prevent and reduce the use of all tobacco products partners and perform monitoring engagements. SBOA in Indiana and to protect citizens from exposure to tobacco has completed a total of 279 monitoring engagements, smoke. Following the Centers for Disease Control and 87 in SFY 2005. Prevention (CDC) Best Practices for Tobacco Control, Indiana established a tobacco control program that is Community Programs: coordinated, comprehensive and accountable. The Hoosier • All of Indiana’s 92 counties received a grant to Model for tobacco control incorporates elements from all conduct tobacco prevention and cessation in their nine categories recommended by the CDC and has five communities, including setting up resources to help major categories for funding. The Hoosier Model consists smokers quit. Over 1,600 organizations are involved of Evaluation and Surveillance; Community Based locally, including 25 local and state minority Programs; Statewide Public Education Campaign; organizations and 12 organizations working on Enforcement of Youth Access Laws; and statewide programs. Administration and Management. • ITPC local partners have conducted over 18,000 activities at the community level, such as implementing ITPC’s program can report many accomplishments in the prevention and education programs in schools, developing state fiscal year 2005 and is changing knowledge, attitudes cessation networks, working to protect Hoosiers from and beliefs regarding tobacco use. The increased awareness secondhand smoke, engaging local businesses, and and education that have occurred in the past four years is a raising awareness of tobacco prevention efforts. precursor to dramatically reducing Indiana’s tobacco use rate. • Forty-five percent (45%) of Hoosier youth are protected from secondhand smoke in schools. In 25 counties all Overall Highlights: school districts are tobacco free, another 34 counties • Youth smoking among high school students report a portion of their school districts with tobacco decreased 32% from 2000 (32%) to 2004 (21%); free campuses. surpassing ITPC’s 2005 objective. • Five regional VOICE Hubs, representing 54 partners • Adult smoking significantly decreased 10% were established. Each hub provides technical from 2002 (27.7%) to 2004 (24.9%). assistance for local adults and youth on youth • Twenty-five (25) hospital and health care facilities advocacy and how to build and sustain their local are taking their grounds smoke free in 2005, twice the VOICE movements. VOICE Hubs conducted Adults as number of tobacco free policy changes in 2004. Allies, Media Literacy and Advocacy, and Leadership Intensive Training for a total of 258 youth and Evaluation: 120 adults. • ITPC conducted the 2nd adult and 3rd youth tobacco surveys, as well as the 4th media tracking survey. ITPC’s evaluation and research coordinating center 4 2004-2005 ANNUAL REPORT Statewide Public Education Campaign: • Seven out of ten Indiana youth and adults have seen an advertisement from the ITPC campaign. Confirmed awareness of the ads has A Closer Look steadily increased over the past few years as every county in the state is being reached by the campaign. • Youth who were aware of at least one ITPC ad were 59% more Indiana Teen Smoking Now Below likely to understand that tobacco is addictive and dangerous National Average compared to those not aware of any ITPC ads. • Adult smokers who had confirmed awareness of an ITPC TV ad The 2004 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey shows that smoking rates among were twice as likely to try to quit smoking in the past year. Hoosiers in grades 9-12 dropped to 21 percent compared to 32 percent in • Hoosiers are reached through the website, www.WhiteLies.tv, that 2000. This represents a 32 percent decline in smoking prevalence over educates on the negative health consequences of tobacco use and the four year period bringing Indiana’s high school smoking rate below the the burden on Hoosiers. That site has received over 261,000 visitors, national average.